Sunhoney Stone Circle, Echt, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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Sunhoney Stone Circle Echt, Aberdeenshire, Scotlan
Kirkton of Bourtie Stone Circle, Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Sunhoney Recumbent Stone Circle 28th July 2015
Visit to Sunhoney RSC, nr Echt, late July 2015, best visited when it's not pissing down. Later in year/winter probably best time, not when the grass is jungle-like.
Whitehills Stone Circle, Tillyfourie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Magnetic Anomalies - Aberdeenshire Stone Circles
A look at some of the strange magnetic anomalies present in Aberdeenshire's Stone Circles.
Aberdeenshire, Stone Circles, Scotland, Part 3.
On my third trip to Aberdeenshire, Scotland I visited a number of recumbent stone circles. I have uploaded a short video of pictures I took of the following sites Hatton Of Ardoyne, Sunhoney, Midmar Kirk, Strichen, South Ythsie, Kirton Of Bourtie, Clune Wood and Nine Stanes. Please note Sunhoney and Midmar Kirk are revisited here from part 1 but this time with no snow. A few photos of East Aquhorthies at sunset appears in the clip above. Thanks for watching and please subscribe.
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Druid Auchencar Standing Stone, Isle of Arran, Machrie, Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Cothiemuir Wood, Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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COTHIEMUIR WOOD
ALFORD
ABEREENSHIRE
SCOTLAND
NEAR THE VILLAGE OF KEIG & CASTLE FORBES, IS COTHIEMUIR WOOD STONE CIRCLE. THIS IS ANOTHER MUST VISIT NEOLITHIC RING, IN THE GORDON DISTRICT OF NE SCOTLAND. OUR PREDECESSORS FROM AROUND 3000BC, ERECTED THE MOST IMPRESSIVE RECUMBENT SETTING, OF ALL THE GRAMPIAN CIRCLES.
A VISIT TO COTHIEMUIR WOOD WILL REWARD YOU WITH A BIG & BEAUTIFUL RECUMBENT STONE. THIS WAS A HUGE FEAT OF ENGINEERING BY OUR NEOLITHIC ANCESTORS. THE CIRCLE IS SURROUNDED BY TREES, MAKING LANDSCAPE OBSERVATIONS DIFFICULT. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING YOU WILL SEE A CIST SLAB WHICH IS VERY UNUSUAL.
AT PRESENT EIGHT STONES REMAIN, FIVE STANDING & THE THREE STONE RECUMBENT SETTING. THIS ENCOMPASSES A 20M DIAMETER. THE SURVIVING STONES ARE IN THE SE TO N ARC. TWO STONES IN THE NW AREA ARE LEANING HEAVILY. IT IS THOUGHT AROUND THIRTEEN STONES WOULD HAVE ORIGINALLY COMPLETED THE SITE. THE CIRCLE ENCLOSES A WELL PRESERVED CAIRN.
THE SSW ORIENTATED RECUMBENT IS 20 TONS & MADE OF BASALT. THIS MEGALITH RESEMBLES A MALE PHALUS. IT IS 4.2M LONG X 1.25M HIGH. UNDERNEATH THE WEST END IS A SUPPORT STONE. ON THE OUTER SURFACE THERE IS NATURAL MARKINGS (KNOWN AS THE DEVILS HOOFMARKS) THERE IS ALSO POSSIBLE MAN MADE CUP MARKS ON THE OUTER FACE.
THE TWO FLANKERS ARE THE HIGHEST STONES. THEY REDUCE IN HEIGHT FROM THE SSW TOWARDS THE NNE. THEY ARE ROUGHLY THE SAME HEIGHT AT 2.7M. THE EAST FLANK SEEMS RECTANGULAR SHAPED AND MAY REPRESENT THE MALE. THE WEST FLANK IS MORE TRIANGULAR WHICH COULD BE SYMBOLIC OF THE FEMALE.
THE FIRST NOTE OF COTHIEMUIR WOOD WAS IN 1692 BY JAMES GARDEN. JOHN HOME MADE THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE CIRCLE, ON AN ESTATE MAP OF CASTLE FORBES IN 1771. AN OLD TRACK SLICES THROUGH THE WEST SIDE OF THE RING.
DR RICHARD BRADLEY EXCAVATED COTHIEMUIR WOOD & PUBLISHED INFORMATION IN A BOOK CALLED ‘THE MOON AND THE BONFIRE’ “AN INVESTIGATION OF THREE STONE CIRCLES IN NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND”. THE OTHER TWO CIRCLES BEING AIKEY BRAE & TOMNAVERIE.
A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS.
[ AERIAL ] Droning at Echt Aberdeen Part 2
Dawn and weather is just too cold though. Had to wait for couple of days just for the sake of good weather. The rest ? It was gloomy and foggy
Location : Echt Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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♫ Vanic Kflay - Make Me Fade.
Echt Show Song
Arrangement of 'The Flood' by Take That with words adapted for the Echt Show, video montage of the Show committee members, Young Farmers and Midmar choir singers